July 2013
| Business World Magazine | 57
our current workforce is phenomenal and we have
been promoting our unique professional environ-
ment through recruitment videos on our website.
These feature young professionals within industries
such as IT and health where we lack workforce and
is meant to make young professional aware in the
other parts of the country of the amazing opportu-
nities available here.”
THE ROAD AHEAD
The future of Anchorage seems bright with sea
food, energy and the international air cargo indus-
tries becoming globally acknowledged. Anchorage
and AEDC is also highly supportive of internet
based businesses and helping startups to launch
themselves in the city. Furthermore, within the re-
tail industry, businesses such as Bass Pro Shops have
chosen Anchorage to build their 76,000 square foot
facility and test the market. Lockheed Martin has
also taken a keen interest in the Anchorage launch
facility, therefore allowing the city an opening into
the aerospace sector. Popp adds, “the energy sector
has also seen a renaissance due to activity in Alaska’s
North Slope and Cook Inlet. It was third in terms of
job growth with the creation of 650 new jobs. There
have also been massive investments in healthcare. It
has been very rewarding to see these different inno-
vations that have been entering our market.”
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